Antonio Guterres Quotes

I'm so tired of the privacy advocates.

The Internet is unpoliceable essentially.

I never understood what the big deal is about privacy.

Privacy is a thing of the past.

Encryption plays a fundamental role in protecting us all online. It is key to growing the digital economy and delivering public services online. But, like many powerful technologies, encrypted services are used and abused by a small minority of people.

The open source nature of the Internet is both a blessing and a curse, because just as much as we can watch what's happening around the world, we can also be watched.

You have to fight for your privacy or you lose it.

Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet.

I think there is a possible future where maybe we do just take a hard turn away from the Internet and we do start valuing our privacy again.

The Internet has fashioned a new and complicated environment for an age-old dilemma that pits the demands of security against the desire for freedom.

In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?

The user in China wants the same thing that any Internet user wants - privacy in conversations, maximum access to information, and the ability to speak their minds online.

Internet freedom is not possible without freedom from fear, and users will not be free from fear unless they are sufficiently protected from online theft and attack.

A number of countries, including Russia and China, have put forward proposals to regulate aspects of the Internet like 'crime' and 'security' that are currently unregulated at the global level due to lack of international consensus over what those terms actually mean or over how to balance enforcement with the protection of citizens' rights.

Whether greater cybersecurity requires a greater sacrifice of our digital freedoms is an important debate that we should be having, preferably with all the facts in front of us.

The Internet's distinct configuration may have facilitated anonymous threats, copyright infringement, and cyberattacks, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom in ways that the framers of the American constitution would appreciate - the Federalist papers were famously authored pseudonymously.

The Internet's distinct configuration may have made cyberattacks easy to launch, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom.

I think we're seeing privacy diminish, not by laws... but by young people who don't seem to value their privacy.

As economic life relies more and more on the Internet, the potential for small bands of hackers to launch devastating attacks on the world economy is growing.

You already have zero privacy - get over it.

I try not to read Google.

Many of our customers have serious concerns about government surveillance of the Internet. We share their concerns.

Online censorship, mass and targeted surveillance and data collection, digital attacks on civil society and repression resulting from online expression force individuals around the world to seek security to hold opinions without interference and seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds. Many seek to protect their security through encryption, the scrambling of data so only intended recipients may access it

We are losing privacy at an alarming rate - we have none left.

Once you put in backdoors, once you allow a government to intercept anything they want, you have to give it to other governments around the world. Once you do that, there is no privacy; there is no security. There is no protection for democracy.